The brain can retrieve memories that never reach conscious awareness, offering new clues about how forgetting and memory recall work.

Researchers have used brain imaging to show how memories can be reactivated in the brain without them reaching conscious awareness, showing that these memories persist even when we think they have ...

Researchers use MEG imaging to show that the brain reactivates "forgotten" memories, but they only reach consciousness if they pulse at a specific rhythm.

Panpsychism, the philosophical position that consciousness is a fundamental and widespread feature of the physical world, has moved from the margins of academic debate into serious scientific ...

How we think about consciousness awareness is key to how we understand psychological process and psychological well-being. I’ve encountered a number of articles lately that put forward explanations of ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

Hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. languish in unconsciousness, cut off from the world by severe brain injuries. But the latest research hints that some of them may still retain reserves of ...